The Practice of Autonomy - Patients, Doctors, and Medical Decisions (Hardcover, New)

This is a book written across the grain of contemporary ethics, where the principle of autonomy has triumphed.It is an attempt to see the law of medicine, the principles of bioethics, and the encounter between doctor and patient from the patient's point of view. While Schneider agrees that many patients now want to make their own medical decisions, and virtually all want to be treated with dignity and solicitude, he argues that most do not want to assume the full burden of decision-making that some bioethicists and lawyers have thrust upon them. What patients want, according to Schneider, is more ambiguous, complicated, and ambivalent than being "empowered." In this book he tries to chart that ambiguity, to take the autonomy paradigm past current pieties into the uncertain realities of modern medicine.

General

Imprint:	Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	February 1999
First published:	1998
Authors:	Carl E. Schneider (Professor of Law)
Dimensions:	241 x 162 x 27mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	352
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-19-511397-6
Categories:	Books > Medicine > General issues > General Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > General Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Social law > General Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Ethics & moral philosophy > General Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > General
LSN:	0-19-511397-7
Barcode:	9780195113976

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